I'm wearing it, but I'm still suffering.

"Take these cakes and eat them in the car. Be obedient when you get there. Just watch your grandfather and the others sell things. Don't make any noise. Your grandfather knows whether they can be sold or not." Before leaving, Grandma Liu gave her some instructions again and secretly gave her a tael of silver, telling her to buy whatever she liked in town.

Liu Xiaoxiao said that she was rich and she usually had pocket money when she went out. Her grandfather would give her pocket money every time he saw her. Now she was a rich woman with at least more than one hundred taels of silver, but most of it was in the Zhu family. She didn't carry much with her, only about ten taels of silver. But if this money was placed in an ordinary family, it would be enough for a whole family's expenses for a year.

That's why she didn't want the money given by Grandma Liu, but she didn't want to let the old lady down, so after some refusal, Liu Xiaoxiao still accepted it.

When they arrived under the big locust tree at the entrance of the village, they saw an ox cart waiting there, and an old man was smoking a pipe next to it.

"Old Liu, you're here so early today!" Liu Yingcai greeted the driver Liu Yingde as soon as he approached.

Liu Yingde is of the same generation as Liu Yingcai, but is two years older than Liu Yingcai. After the only son in the family joined the army, his wife died of illness not long after. He was left to farm the land, but he couldn't produce so much, so he sold some of the land and rented out the rest. The rent he collected every year was enough for him to eat. He used the money from the land sale to buy a cow, put a wooden tack on it, and usually drove a sports car around the village and town to earn enough money for his coffin.

"It's getting late. We'll have to leave soon. Yingcai, are you going to the town to see your youngest brother Mai again?" Old Liu asked jokingly when he saw Liu Kun carrying a backpack.

"Yes! The chickens at home laid a few eggs, and the old woman wanted me to send them to her youngest son."

Grandma Liu had decided to bring the eggs this morning on a whim. The purpose was to conceal their whereabouts. If anyone asked them what they were doing, they would say they were going to deliver some vegetables and eggs from their own farm to Liu Yunyi, so that they wouldn't have to go out and buy them.

"Okay, come and sit for a while. Put your things up there first." When Liu Yingde saw the three of them, grandparents and grandchildren, going to the town together, he knew that they couldn't just be there to see someone, but he didn't ask what they were going to do specifically.

Everyone has their own privacy. Since others don’t say it, it must be inconvenient to say it.

As soon as she sat down, Liu Xiaoxiao took out the pancakes her grandmother had prepared for them, intending to eat them while waiting for the bus, so that they wouldn't be difficult to share when there were too many people.

Out of politeness, she took one and gave it to Liu Yingde first, "Grandpa Liu, you haven't had breakfast yet! Come and have a pancake," she said as she was about to hand it to him.

Liu Yingde quickly waved his hands: "No, no, I have already eaten at home this morning, you guys can just eat it." Although life is not difficult these days, he would not accept food from guests casually, and he did eat it anyway.

Seeing that he was sure he didn't want any, Liu Xiaoxiao gave two each to Grandpa Liu and her eldest brother, and ate one herself.

After finishing his cake and drinking some water, Grandpa Liu saw Old Liu smoking his pipe next to him. Grandpa Liu, who had nothing better to do, started chatting with him.

For example: "Are there many people going to town recently? Is business good? When will you be back in the afternoon?" and so on.

Liu Yingde answered all the questions one by one and told them that they would start to return from the county town at 3 p.m. If they wanted to come back today, they should wait at the city gate before 3 p.m.

Grandpa Liu also said that he would definitely come back today, and then we would go find him there and take his car back.

Just as the two finished talking, several women from the same village and two men carrying things came one after another. They all took the initiative to greet Grandpa Liu and found a place to sit down. A quarter of an hour later, their ox carts also set off towards the town.